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Brief Biography

Dr. Isabela Granic is a Health Systems Research Scientist in the Community Health Systems Resource Group at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). She is an Associate Scientist in the Child Health Evaluative Sciences program of the SickKids Research Institute and an Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Granic received her doctorate in Human Development and Applied Psychology at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Granic's theoretical and empirical work is in the field of developmental psychopathology, with a focus on studying the interface between normal and atypical development from a dynamic systems perspective. Her research interests include identifying: (a) the processes that account for change and stability in children and adolescents' family and peer relationships, (b) the mechanisms that underpin change when interventions are successful, and (c) subtypes of antisocial and comorbid children - some of whom may or may not benefit from currently favoured interventions. Dr. Granic and her colleagues have developed new dynamic systems methods that are useful for examining the heterogeneity of antisocial youth. These methods are also particularly well-suited for studying change processes in therapeutic contexts.

Research Interests

• Antisocial behaviour in youth
• Processes of change underlying successful intervention
• Parent-child relations
• Dynamic systems theory and methods
• Observational methods
• Knowledge translation/dissemination

Research Activities

• Successful interventions with antisocial youth: cognitive-affective and neural mechanisms
• Outcomes of interventions for childhood aggression: brain and behavioural changes
• Changing practice behaviour: evidence-based strategies to improve practice for antisocial youth

Future Research Interests

• The mediating role of maternal depression in successful treatment outcomes with antisocial youth
• Studying changes in emotion regulation processes in the brain (ERP techniques) in youth with successful treatment outcomes

External Funding

Adolescent outcomes of interventions for childhood aggression: Brain and behavioural changes. Ontario Mental Health Foundation (OMHF). Intermediate Research Fellowship Award (2009-2012)

Changing practice behaviour: Evidence-based strategies to improve practice for antisocial youth. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Principal Investigators: I. Granic; Co-Investigator: B. Ferguson (2009-2011)

Developmental psychopathology website development. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Principal Investigators: I. Granic; Co-Investigator: D. Santor (2009-2010)

Successful interventions with antisocial youth: Cognitive-affective and neural mechanisms. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Co-Principal Investigators: I. Granic, M. Lewis and P. Zelazo. (2006-2009)

Therapeutic processes of change inside the "black box" of multisystemic therapy. Ontario Mental Health Foundation (OMHF). Principal Investigator: I. Granic; Co-Investigator: B. Ferguson. (2006-2008)

Hosted Symposia

From Science to Practice and Back: Mechanisms of Change in Developmental Psychopathology. (2008). Sponsored by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Ontario Mental Health Foundation, and The Hospital for Sick Children.

Publications

Larson, H., Engels, R.C.M.E., Souren, P.M., Granic, I., & Overbeek, G. (2010). Peer influence in a micro-perspective: Imitation of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Addictive Behaviors, 35, 49-52.

Grimbos, T. & Granic, I. (2009). Changes in maternal depression are associated with MST outcomes for adolescents with co-occurring externalizing and internalizing problems. Journal of Adolescence, 32, 1-9.

Lewis, M.D., Granic, I., Lamm, C., Steiben, J., Todd, R.M., Moadab, I. & Pepler, D. (2008). Changes in the neural bases of emotion regulation associated with clinical improvement in children with behavior problems. Development and Psychopathology, 20, 913-939.

Granic, I., O’Hara, A., Pepler, D. & Lewis, M.D. (2007). A dynamic systems analysis of parent-child changes associated with successful “real-world” interventions with aggressive children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 35, 845-857.

Larsen, H., Overbeek, G., Granic, I. & Engels, R.C.M.E. (2007). Imitation of alcohol consumption: An experimental observational study. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 31, 42A.

Stieben, J., Lewis, M.D., Granic, I., Zelazo, P.D. & Pepler, D. (2007). Neurophysiological correlates of emotion regulation distinguish subtypes of antisocial children. Development and Psychopathology, 19, 455-480.

Granic, I. (2006). Timing is everything: Developmental psychopathology from a dynamic systems perspective. Developmental Review, 25, 386-407.

Granic, I. & Patterson, G.R. (2006). Toward a comprehensive model of antisocial development: A dynamic systems approach. Psychological Review, 113, 101-131.

Hollenstein, T., Granic, I., Stoolmiller, M. & Snyder, J. (2004). Rigidity in parent-child interactions and the development of externalizing and internalizing behavior in early childhood. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 32, 595-607.

Granic, I. & Dishion, T.J. (2003). Deviant talk in adolescent friendships: A step toward measuring a pathogenic attractor process. Social Development, 12, 314-334.

Granic, I. & Hollenstein, T. (2003). Dynamic systems methods for models of developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 15, 641-669.

Granic, I., Hollenstein, T., Dishion, T.J. & Patterson, G.R. (2003). Longitudinal analysis of flexibility and reorganization in early adolescence: A dynamic systems study of family interactions. Developmental Psychology, 39, 606-617.

Granic, I. & Lamey, A.V. (2002). Combining dynamic systems and multivariate analyses to compare the mother-child interactions of externalizing subtypes. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 30, 265-283.

Dishion, T.J., Bullock, B.M. & Granic, I. (2002). Pragmatism in modeling peer influence: Dynamics, outcomes, and change processes. How prevention intervention studies in the field of developmental psychopathology can inform developmental theories and models. [Special Issue]. Development and Psychopathology, 14, 969-981.

Granic, I. & Lamey, A.V. (2002). Combining dynamic systems and multivariate analyses to compare the mother-child interactions of externalizing subtypes. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 30, 265-283.

Granic, I. & Lamey, A.V. (2000). The self-organization of the Internet and changing modes of thought. New Ideas in Psychology, 18, 93-107.

Lewis, M.D. & Granic, I. (2000).  Emotion, development and self-organization: Dynamic systems approaches to emotional development. New York: Cambridge University Press, Eds.

Lewis, M.D. & Granic, I. (1999). Who put the self in self-organization? A clarification of terms and concepts for developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 11, 365-374.

Granic, I. & Butler, S. (1998). The relation between anger and antisocial beliefs in young offenders. Personality and Individual Differences, 24, 759-765.